NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has successfully completed its first rocket launch from a commercial space facility outside of the United States. A 13-meter rocket blasted off Monday from a site in the Australian outback.A 13-m…
Moussa Tolofidie didn’t think twice when nearly 100 jihadis on motorbikes gathered in his village in central Mali last week.A peace agreement signed last year between some armed groups and the community in the Bankass area had largely held, even if the…
GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Activists in Botswana have slammed the Kimberley Process, which is intended to prevent diamonds from financing wars, after meetings this week failed to censure Russia.The European Union (EU) and allies sought to expand the definiti…
CONSTANTA, ROMANIA — With Ukraine’s seaports blockaded or captured by Russian forces, neighboring Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta has emerged as a main conduit for the war-torn country’s grain exports amid a growing world food crisis.It’s Romania…
GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Activists in Botswana have slammed the Kimberley Process, which is intended to prevent diamonds from financing wars, after meetings this week failed to censure Russia.The European Union (EU) and allies sought to expand the definiti…
TRIPOLI — The United Nations said Thursday it will broker new talks between rival institutions from war-torn Libya next week to try to break a deadlock on the rules for long-awaited elections.”[Parliament speaker] Aguila Saleh and President of the High…
Malawi’s government and conservationists have announced plans to move 250 elephants from a park in the country’s south to a central one that has lost nearly all its population to poaching. But communities living near the park fear the new arrivals coul…
WASHINGTON, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A senior US official hinted that more Arab nations are looking to make gestures to improve relations with Israel when President Joe Biden visits the region next month.Biden will travel from July 13 to 16 to Israel, …
ABUJA, Nigerian troops have found two former schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists eight years ago, the military said Tuesday, freeing some of the last victims of the 2014 Chibok abduction.The two women each carried babies on their laps…